Patents by Inventor Colin C. Sherman

Colin C. Sherman has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Systems and methods for facilitating originality analysis
    Patent number: 8296661
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for integrating the peer review process with other applications and facilitating peer review using a user interface linked to a peer review application having knowledge base information and defined rules for: accepting a paper for peer review, assigning the paper to one or more of a defined set of reviewers for review, providing to the reviewers one or more criteria to be used for reviewing and evaluating each paper for enabling each reviewer to create a peer review result, and processing all peer review results for any paper to produce a peer review report. Access to these systems and methods may be provided, for example, on a stand-alone computer or over the Internet, World Wide Web, or an intranet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: iParadigms, LLC
    Inventors: John M. Barrie, Colin C. Sherman
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING ORIGINALITY ANALYSIS
    Publication number: 20100070879
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for integrating the peer review process with other applications and facilitating peer review using a user interface linked to a peer review application having knowledge base information and defined rules for: accepting a paper for peer review, assigning the paper to one or more of a defined set of reviewers for review, providing to the reviewers one or more criteria to be used for reviewing and evaluating each paper for enabling each reviewer to create a peer review result, and processing all peer review results for any paper to produce a peer review report. Access to these systems and methods may be provided, for example, on a stand-alone computer or over the Internet, World Wide Web, or an intranet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: IPARADIGMS, LLC
    Inventors: John M. Barrie, Colin C. Sherman
  • Systems and methods for conducting a peer review process and evaluating the originality of documents
    Patent number: 7219301
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for integrating the peer review process with other applications and facilitating peer review using a user interface linked to a peer review application having knowledge base information and defined rules for: accepting a paper for peer review, assigning the paper to one or more of a defined set of reviewers for review, providing to the reviewers one or more criteria to be used for reviewing and evaluating each paper for enabling each reviewer to create a peer review result, and processing all peer review results for any paper to produce a peer review report. Access to these systems and methods may be provided, for example, on a stand-alone computer or over the Internet, World Wide Web, or an intranet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: iParadigms, LLC
    Inventors: John M. Barrie, Colin C. Sherman
  • Systems and methods for facilitating the peer review process
    Publication number: 20030164849
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for integrating the peer review process with other applications and facilitating peer review using a user interface linked to a peer review application having knowledge base information and defined rules for: accepting a paper for peer review, assigning the paper to one or more of a defined set of reviewers for review, providing to the reviewers one or more criteria to be used for reviewing and evaluating each paper for enabling each reviewer to create a peer review result, and processing all peer review results for any paper to produce a peer review report. Access to these systems and methods may be provided, for example, on a stand-alone computer or over the Internet, World Wide Web, or an intranet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2002
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Applicant: iParadigms, LLC
    Inventors: John M. Barrie, Colin C. Sherman